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EFA and EAACI sign memorandum of understanding

EFA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), a longstanding partner of EFA. This memorandum of understanding will lay the groundwo…

Respiratory physiotherapy videos now in Portuguese

EFA Spanish Member FENAER has launched a website to support patients with pulmonary rehabilitation online and for free. The website can be opened in all devices and offers several videos, 3 minutes lo…

Swedish patients launch an online recipe bank

EFA Member the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association has launched the recipe bank, Receptbanken, where people can search for individual ingredients that they want to exclude or include. The purpose o…

The new AFPRAL magazine is published

EFA Member the French Association for Allergy Prevention is pleased to announce the launch of the new Allergy magazine, Le Mag. The whole AFPRAL team has conceived it as a communication and informatio…

SAVE THE DATE! The European Parliament Interest Group’s event on the barriers to research in chronic NCDs in Europe

Next 9th October 2018, the European Parliament Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma, is organising an event entitled “How to overcome the barriers to research in chronic NCDs in Europe? The case of al…

Should the EU revise the EU Ambient Air Quality Directives? Patients say YES!

The European Commission launched in May-July a process to gather information on the impact and added value of the EU Ambient Air Quality Directives from stakeholders. It is what has been fancily calle…

The European Commission launched a public consultation to evaluate the 7th Environment Action Programme (7th EAP), which is the strategic document that guides EU policy to reduce pollution in the air,…

Is the role of patients neglected in the prevention of Chronic Respiratory Disease? Our presentation at GARD

EFA Board Member, Hubert Nettel, had the honour to present in the opening of the 12th Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD) General Meeting entitled “The Natural Step to Respirat…

HTA proposal approved by the European Parliament health committee leaves out some patients expectations

The proposal for a regulation on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) has been high on the agenda of the European Parliament during the last months. The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and F…

EU-UK patient group meets the European Commission to discuss Brexit

In July, our Director Susanna Palkonen chaired a meeting on behalf of the European Patients’ Forum and coordinated by the Association of Medical Research Charities UK (AMRC) to meet the Brexit taskfor…

EFA launches Capacity Building webinars

For the 1st time this year we will be connecting to transfer knowledge and grow our capacities via online seminars (called webinars!). There will be 6 webinars of 1h30 hours, accessible for EFA Member…

New President for the food allergy patients in France

AFPRAL, the French Association for the Prevention of Allergies, has a new elected president, Pascale Couratier, replacing exiting President Véronique Olivier. Pascale has been working for AFPRAL for m…

Do you support atopic eczema patients? Put the filter on

To mark #AtopicEczemaDay we have launched a social media filter to raise awareness about a disease that goes beyond the skin. We want to catch people’s attention and force them look behind a skin that…

[EFA exhibition at EADV] ECZEMA - Atopical lives

During 2018 an award winning photographer she has followed 9 European patients for 2 days to know the real lives of people living with atopic eczema. Her pictures will be encapsulated in a photo-jouna…

[EP Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma Policy Meeting] How to overcome the barriers to research in chronic NCDs in Europe? The case of allergy and asthma

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are chronic and might last a lifetime. Asthma and allergies are NCDs affecting 70 million people in Europe, in the case of asthma, 100 million Europeans suffer from al…

[EFA Capacity Building] Online webinars

A webinar series for EFA Members and their member advocates to learn online about Governance, Project Planning, Membership, Communications, Fundraising and Advocacy. Do you have what it takes to be ad…